Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-05-07

nell: aStop thicf?n When [ see
YOU GO into store, not expecting
to buy anything but to price things,
stealing the time Of Tho clerk, and
stealing the time of his employer,
| say too: "Stop thief"
III were asked which class OF
persons most need the grace food
amid their annoyances. would
say: "Dry goods clerks" All the
Indignation of customers about the
high prices comes on the clerk
For instance: A great war comes
The manufactures are closed. me
prople 90 of to battle. The price
OF goods runs up. The customer
comes into a store. Goods have
gone mp. GLOW much is thatworths"
"a dollar" ga dollar! Outrageous.
A dcllar!o why, who Is to blame
fer the fact that it has got 10 TIC a
dollar? Does the Indignation 60
ont to the manufacturers on the
banks OF the Mcrrimac, because
they have closed up! No. Does
the indignation go out toward the
eml:it yer,who is out at his country
seats No. 1t comes on the clerk.
He got up the war. He levied the
taxes! He puts up the reul! Ol
course the clerk!
Then IL great trial comes TO clerks
in the fact that they see the par
simonious side Of human nature
You talk about lies behind ill:
connter-thrre are just as many
lies before the counter. Augustine
speaks of man who advertised
that he would, on a certain occa-
sion, tell tile people what was IN
THEN. hearts. A great crowd as.
sembled, and he stepped TO the
front and said: II Will tell you
what is in your hearts; To buy
cheap and sell dca,." o, people OF
Brooklyn. lay nor aside your urban
ity when you come into Il store
Treat the clerks like gentlemen and
ladics-proving Yourself to he a
gentleman OF Il lady. Remember,
tlatlf the prices are high aud yonr
purse is lean, that isno fault OF the
clerks. And if You have a son OF
a daughler amid those rerplexltleS.
of commercial life, and such Il one
GENES homea ali WON out, be lchlcnt,
and Know that tie martyr at the
stake no more certainly needs the
grace OF God than our young PEG
pie amid the seven times heated
cxasperatlons of IL clerks life.
Then lheie are all the tIials
which come 10 clerks from the treat
ment of inconsiderate employees
There alc protesSed Christian men
in this city who have no more re-
gard fer their clerks than they have
for the scales on which the sugars
are weighed. a clerk is no more
than 20 much store furniture. No
consideration for their rights or
their interests. Not one void oil
announcement sunrise toSuIl-
set. nor from January TO December.
Ru5 Wien all! thing goes wrong-a
streak of dust Oh the counter, or Il
box with the cover oh-thuuder
showers Of Scoldiug. Men 'mperi-
Gus. caplicious, cIahky towards
their clclkS-tielr whole manner
as much asto say. "All the interest
| have in YOU is to see what Can
get cut of YOU
Then there are all the trials OF
incompetent wages. Some OF you
rene n. bcl w.el the war broke opt
and ali elchandise went mp, nd
Merchants were made mililonalreS
in six months hy The simple rise III
the value Of goods. Did The clerk
get lie advantage Of that rlses--
Sometimes, not always. saw es
tatos gathered in those times over
which the cuse Of Gcd has hung
eversil &c. Tie cry ofunpaid men
and We men i'll hose stores reached
tue Lord Of Sabbaolb, aud the IN
dIsnation Ct God has Leen around
1lCse establishments ever since;
lin.bling i'll he carriage wheels,
flashing III the chandeliers, glow
ing i'll The cl ms on uphclste,y,lhun-
GerIng III the long roll Of The tell
Pin alley. Such men may build up
palaces OF merchandise heaven
ligh, but alter awhile disaster
will come along, and will putou
hald on this pillar and another
Land OH that pillar and throw itself
toward until down will come he
whole structure, CRUSHING the Wor-
shippers as grapes are mashed III a
wine press.
Then there are boys i'll establish
meuts who are ruiued-in prosper
Gus eStablShmentS-ruined by their
lack of compensation. In how ma
ny prosperous stores 1t has been
for the last twenty years that boys
were gwen just enough money 10
learn them how TO sleal2 Some
were seized upon by the police
The vast majority ofinstances were
not known. The head Of the firm
asked: "Where is George nOw?"
80, he isn't here any more" A lad
might better stalve 70 death on q
blasted heath than take one cent
from his employer. Woe he TO that
employer who unnecessarily puts
Il temptation in a boys way. There
have been great establishments in
these cities building marble pala-
ces, their owners dying worth mil
linnS. and millions. and millions.